Roland please, software update possible?
Posted: 23:13, 16 August 2017
Dear Roland Team,
in the last week I had to program the Juno DS for a gig as a last minute replacement keyboard. I am pretty impressed what this little machine (DS 61) is capable of.
There are some functions I am really missing which I would like to focus on:
#1 As a live keyboardist I (have to) use the Favorite Function to have quick access to all my different Patches and Performances. If I save a User Patch, I name it the song's name e.g. "Blame it on the Boogie". If the Favorite memory space refers to a Patch than the Name appears in BIG LETTERS which is ideal for a gloomy stage. If the Favorite memory space refers to a Performance, the big letters refer to the activated Patch as part of the Performance while the Performance name, again the song's name, is displayed in the upper right corner in pretty small letters. If it would be either or (always small letters in the right corner or always big letters in the center) it would be ok but with this changing issue one has to flip around between Patches and Performances names to find out what current song they refer to. I was used to Yamaha's Master Mode where I could type in a Master Name regardless of the memory beeing a Patch, Performance, Song, Pattern Sequence ...) Only the given name appeared, nothin more. That was quite comfortable. Maybe this could be solved via a software update, having always the Big Letters as the Performance name in the center?
#2 One wish with regard to the Vocoder funtion. In some songs I just use it as an addition to my live playing e.g. for the tune "Let's Groove tonight". Unfortunately changing the MODE to Vocoder hinders me from playing the needed Rhodes sound. I know that I can do a workaround with the MFX:79 in Performance Mode but the quality of the Vocoder is not comparable at all. Here a software update would catapult the Juno DS to a even higher level.
#3 Please arrange the possibility of importing Multisamples. A sampling function in the machine itself would be wonderful! And I was used to import my own drum samples to then manipulate these samples with the internal effects, could this be arranged as well?
During the last days the above mentioned points were inconvenient for me. Maybe this headroom could be filled with some updates?
I am looking forward to the next OS
rgds and greetings
Heiko
in the last week I had to program the Juno DS for a gig as a last minute replacement keyboard. I am pretty impressed what this little machine (DS 61) is capable of.
There are some functions I am really missing which I would like to focus on:
#1 As a live keyboardist I (have to) use the Favorite Function to have quick access to all my different Patches and Performances. If I save a User Patch, I name it the song's name e.g. "Blame it on the Boogie". If the Favorite memory space refers to a Patch than the Name appears in BIG LETTERS which is ideal for a gloomy stage. If the Favorite memory space refers to a Performance, the big letters refer to the activated Patch as part of the Performance while the Performance name, again the song's name, is displayed in the upper right corner in pretty small letters. If it would be either or (always small letters in the right corner or always big letters in the center) it would be ok but with this changing issue one has to flip around between Patches and Performances names to find out what current song they refer to. I was used to Yamaha's Master Mode where I could type in a Master Name regardless of the memory beeing a Patch, Performance, Song, Pattern Sequence ...) Only the given name appeared, nothin more. That was quite comfortable. Maybe this could be solved via a software update, having always the Big Letters as the Performance name in the center?
#2 One wish with regard to the Vocoder funtion. In some songs I just use it as an addition to my live playing e.g. for the tune "Let's Groove tonight". Unfortunately changing the MODE to Vocoder hinders me from playing the needed Rhodes sound. I know that I can do a workaround with the MFX:79 in Performance Mode but the quality of the Vocoder is not comparable at all. Here a software update would catapult the Juno DS to a even higher level.
#3 Please arrange the possibility of importing Multisamples. A sampling function in the machine itself would be wonderful! And I was used to import my own drum samples to then manipulate these samples with the internal effects, could this be arranged as well?
During the last days the above mentioned points were inconvenient for me. Maybe this headroom could be filled with some updates?
I am looking forward to the next OS
rgds and greetings
Heiko